Why This Week Matters!

Many of us are already focused on Easter. We are making our plans. Planning what we’ll do with friends and family and more. But this week, this week that we are in really matters. Don’t move too quickly towards Easter forgetting something really important that happened this very week and could happen to you again […]

Unpackaging The Jesus Life

It’s profound that the initial followers of Jesus were never called, “Christians.” They were called, “followers of the way” (see Acts 9:2, 19:23; 22:4; 24:14, 22). Evidently the new ways Jesus offered were so significant compared to their own futile ways that their name even reflected the direction in which they chose to travel in […]

A Picture of Friendship: An Oyster

I’ve learned some lessons while at the beach that seems worth to share here. Of all the shells that wash ashore, the ugliest of them all is the oyster shell. Amidst the spectacular and intriguing sand-dollars which are perfectly round with an embedded cross in the center, the amazing clam shells which are symmetrical, sturdy […]